Jeffrey Harrison
{{short description|American poet}}
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|name=Jeffrey Harrison
|birth_name=Jeffrey W. Harrison
|birth_place=Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
|occupation=Poet
|alma_mater=Columbia University
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Jeffrey W. Harrison (born Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro.{{Cite web|date=2022-01-17|title=Jeffrey Harrison|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jeffrey-harrison|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Columbia College Today|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/nov_dec07/features3.html|access-date=2022-01-17|website=www.college.columbia.edu}} His most recent poetry collection is Into Daylight (Tupelo Press 2014), which follows The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems (The Waywiser Press, 2006).{{Cite web |url=http://waywiser-press.com/poetry.html#jeffreyharrison |title=The Waywiser Press > Jeffrey Harrison |access-date=2010-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202071158/http://waywiser-press.com/poetry.html#jeffreyharrison |archive-date=2009-12-02 |url-status=dead }} His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century. His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships. He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.{{Cite web |url=http://usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/faculty/harrison.html |title=Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing |access-date=2009-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120105049/http://www.usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/faculty/harrison.html |archive-date=2008-11-20 |url-status=dead }} He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.{{cite web | url=http://www.pw.org/content/jeffrey_harrison | title=Jeffrey Harrison | date=26 September 1984 }}
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
- {{cite book| title=Into Daylight | url=https://archive.org/details/intodaylight0000harr | url-access=registration | date=April 2014| publisher=Tupelo Press| isbn=978-1-936797-43-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems | date=June 2006| publisher=Dufour Eds| isbn=978-1-904130-20-8 }}
- {{cite book | title=Incomplete Knowledge | date=October 2006 | publisher=Four Way Books | isbn=978-1-884800-73-3 | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781884800733 }}
- {{cite book| title=An Undertaking | date=January 2005| publisher=Haven Street Press| isbn=978-0-9767012-1-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=Feeding the Fire| date=November 2001| url=https://archive.org/details/feedingfirepoems0000harr| url-access=registration| quote=Jeffrey Harrison.| publisher=Sarabande Books| isbn=978-1-889330-64-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=Signs of Arrival | url=https://archive.org/details/signsofarrivalpo0000harr | url-access=registration | date=October 1996| publisher=Copper Beech Press| isbn=978-0-914278-71-9 }}
- {{cite book | title=The Singing Underneath | date=May 1988 | publisher=E.P. Dutton | isbn=978-0-525-24640-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/singingunderneat00harr }}
Honors and awards
- The Singing Underneath selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series,
- 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/6277-jeffrey-w-harrison |title=Jeffrey W. Harrison - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2010-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603232949/http://www.gf.org/fellows/6277-jeffrey-w-harrison |archive-date=2011-06-03 |url-status=dead }}
- 1995 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts
- two Pushcart Prizes
- 1988-1989 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.
- Reflection on the Vietnam War Memorial
References
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External links
- [http://home.comcast.net/~jeffrey.harrison/index.htm Author's website]
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/55-harrison.html| title=Incomplete Knowledge | journal=AGNI| year=2002| volume=55}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-harrison.html| title=Lord, Deliver Us This Affliction| journal=AGNI| year=2002| volume=56}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2004/59-harrison.html| title=To Kenneth Koch | journal=AGNI| year=2004| volume=59 }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179634| title=Visitation| journal=American Life in Poetry: Column 115| date=28 May 2022| publisher=Poetry Foundation}}
- [http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=658 Ploughshares > Authors > Jeffrey Harrison]
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